Test of the Heart

[Rocket!]

[ Laaaaaaaaaaaadies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's time once again to reintroduce ourselves to the not-so-well-known Invasion! Invasion... _Invasion...

The rules of the game are simple! Defeat the Heartless, get a slap on the back and a hardy handshake! And some Synthesis Materials!

Hmm. Looks like you're the one running the show here, Shinn. If this is, in fact, not an Open thread, and you'd like me to take my leave, just say the word! Be sure to tell me before you post though, 'cause after that, there's nothing for it. ^^

Running away is an option. Not recommended, given the prizes. But definitely an option.

So, yeah. LET'S GET READY TO RUMBUUUUUUUUUUUUHLE! ]

Among the swathes of curling black and purples shadows wrought from the dark fueled being was a writhing and emanating power. Darkness, used freely.

Something not seen often enough on Destiny Islands.

The brazen and flagrant use of powers not seen on the isles in many years brought the strange and alluring seabreeze-filled scent to the attention of beings best forgotten.

Bwwsh.

A raging fire, flickering black and purple flames, reared it's ugly head midair, seated amiably in the sky. It's heat and power was as palpable as the shadowy man's own.

A blaze of black speed appeared. Quickly followed by a second.

Twin bursts of schizophrenic Heartless. A jarring pace, jerking back and forth through the air at a speed a blender could only envy-- though never moving more than three feet from the same spot.

And so it was that, in the dying haze of the flame, that two Darkball Heartless became visible, halting mid-spurt.

Darkball 1
[HP=50/50]

Darkball 2
[HP=50/50]

[Shinn]

[Well this is unexpected, but it works in my favor. Rocket you go ahead and have your little fun with these two. I'd play along but you know me, not a team player especially when I'm playing a baddie.]


The two outsiders used their weapons and stabbed into the swirling black pools of darkness only to meet with the traps the dark enigma had set up. Rising from each of the three pools was a monstrous hand that grabbed the outsiders arms. Keeping a firm grip on their attackers they began squeezing the life out of them.

Had it not been for Iatros quick thinking and pure luck firing a blast at the last pool of darkness, they would have had their entire life force drained from their bodies. As the blue energy bolt landed a direct hit, the dark entity popped out thus seizing the attack altogether. The black claws vanished and the large shadow that was beneath them had vanished.

But this fight was not over yet, or so they thought.

The dark entity stood there for a moment, then from out of nowhere two Heartless appeared before it. It had not summoned these Heartless, but their presence did manage to take focus off the two outsiders and back on the more stronger light that was further ahead. It used this as a chance to sneak away and head towards the light.

Taking a few steps back it sank into the ground and vanished. Now these two would have to deal with the Heartless before they could continue their pursuit of the dark entity.

[Magius]

Iatros stood panting, leaning on his sword a bit. "Wait! he cried out toward the shadow figure as it got away. He growled in frustration, but took a deep breath to calm down. He turned to the two heartless with a cold look on his face. "Your gonna’ regret coming here.” He then quickly flipped his sword into reverse grip and ran at the two heartless. When he was close enough, he jumped up in-between the two and spun, swinging his sword in a completely circular arc to hit both heartless with the same attack.

[Draconas]

Arc ran beside Iatros, determined to slash both katana at the same Darkball, the one on the right...or nearest him. Either or. He charged, growling a warcry before bringing one katana in an upward spiral and the other making a downward left crescent. He hoped both slashes hit, and was prepared to get up the breath for another breath attack if not.

[Rocket!]

[ Laaaaaaaaaame. xD Don't expect any prizes then, Shinn! ]

Swords flared in response to the arrival of the twin Heartless.

Mage's Edge hit the first of the two off the side of it's body, immediately causing a surprising fluctuation in it's body-- a convulsion, in response to the blow. It's yellow eyes turned on Iatros, forceful rage coming in a sudden blast of speed.

It's jaw was wide and clamping open and shut rapidly as it barreled for Iatros at an incredibly high speed. If Iatros couldn't find a way to avoid getting hit by this quick response, he'd be subject to a rapid string of blow-- multiple small hits in a row.

The other Darkball was subject to a total of three blows from a sword. Caught by the backswing of Mage's Edge and sent flying towards a sword-happy Arc, who was more than happy to give the Darkball whatfor with a quick maneuver with both Silverstreak and Quicksilver, the Heartless was clearly getting the brunt of the action here.

A wave of darkness wrapped around it's being, cloaking it in bleak night. The shape of the writhing Darkball immediately shrunk away, becoming a small ball-- a ball radiating a hard and heavy aura of black and purple darkness! It immediately sped forwards, entangling itself with the midst of battle, making for a hard target.

Heading to attack Iatros :: Darkball 1
[HP=44/50]

Intangible//Swerving around battlefield :: Darkball 2
[HP=35/50]

[Magius]

Iatros stood his ground at the last minute, staring the enraged darkball in its golden eyes, with a look a determination and maybe even a bit of doubt. He had to time this at exactly the right moment or he would be moved down by this thing.

The darkball continued to barrel toward him ready to take his heart. Just before it was going to hit him, he jumped high into the air, about 20 feet, and over the darkball. As he was coming down he spun, facing the back of the darkball, and fire a head size blue light at it hoping to get it in its weak spot.

[Draconas]

Arc watched the ball moving in and out of the combat area. He couldn't get it himself, but instead went for the combo. He turned to face the other one, flames rising in his chest. The heat could be felt throughout his body. He moved to intercept it just as Iatros leapt into the air. He did a second double strike, but different this time. Both blades went straight for the target, his right stabbing forward, while the left went for a sweeping slash. At the same moment, he breathed out flames, the burst of fire striking right between his blades, heating the metal as it and the ray of fire impacted.

[Action Recap: Arc used Draconic Flames, while slashing. Uses left: Unlimited, next use: 3 posts from now]

[Homac]

The stream of memories, how it meanders...

Namine wasn't entirely sure how she got into these messes. Things like this just happened when she was around... Maybe it had something to do with being Kairi's Nobody... She had come to Destiny Islands, actually looking for her Somebody, hoping that Kairi would know the whereabouts of someone, either Sora or Roxas.

Of course, when she saw the Heartless appear, she wasn't just going to let the two fighters just go it alone. She had at least some means of fighting, and she was going to help if she could!

So, the girl ran into the battlefield, moving to avoid the twin Darkballs if she could. As she did this, she shouted, more like spoke loudly, at her new allies. "Ah, I'm here to help!"

...She really was new to this whole "joining the fight" thing.

As she moved near Iatros and Arc, she raised her right hand in the air, and said, "Darkness of Gravity, I command you, descend!"

As this was said, an orb of darkness descended at the Darkball headed towards Iatros

[An: Namine is wearing her Alt. Outfit. Check her profile for details.]

[Shinn]

[Hmph you know I don't rp for silly little prizes Rocket]


With the outsiders too preoccupied with the Heartless, the dark entity had no trouble making its way towards the area where there harbored a strong source of light.

It took no less than a few seconds before it had finally made it to a house where the light was strongly focused inside. It then turned back around and saw that another source of light, one that it had sensed when it arrived on the islands. They were headed towards the dark entity's location at an alarming rate. It was running out of time now.

The dark entity sunk into the ground and popped back up inside the house. Since it was nighttime everyone had gone to bed already. Quietly, the dark entity made its way to the room where the light was in. It sunk down and went under the door before popping back out inside the room.

Inside the room sleeping halfway under the covers was Sora. But to the dark entity all it saw was a blinding light that covered most of the entire room. But instead of attempting to vanquish the light like it had done to the others, it stood there carefully examining a specific area on Sora. For a very brief moment the light flickered.

The dark entity literally sprung into action, crouching first before leaping towards Sora and diving into his heart. Sora, who was still asleep began tossing and turning gripping his chest in agony.

[Rocket!]

[ Guys, guys! xD Stop saying that you're attacking before the person who posted before you! Try and stick in chronological order, please? ^^

Magius: I'm assuming your attack is the ability Magick Missle. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Shinn. Sora is a taken canon. FSA has reign over him. And if that's changed, then you need to send a polite PM a Canon Crew member's way. You cannot control Sora without owning him. Please edit or remove your post accordingly.

Synthesis Materials will be given as a result of defeating a foe. You can decide after the Invasion who gets what, okay? ^^

No more participants, please!

Due to the increase in participants, a special arrival is in store after these two are defeated! This third opponent will require some teamwork and planning, and won't be a piece of cake. Be ready! ]

For a Heartless that seemed so fortunate, the first of the Darkballs was suddenly the topic of heated debate.

Null energies swarmed around the enemy, purplish and granite in color, forcibly shattering it's focus and sending it flying for the ground.

WHAM. A small scale shudder was sent through the brick road the group was fighting in the middle of, the citizens in the picture perfect homes surrounding the pathway nowhere to be seen-- either hiding or having run from the strange scenario. The Darkball's fluctuating frame, having taken a serious beating from the Gravity spell alone, was now stuck on the ground for the foreseeable future.

Swring. Twin blades, at the hand of Arc Draco, came down harshly on the struggling Heartless-- the sudden blaze of fire didn't make for a comforting situation either. The already struggling Heartless further faded under the followup attack--

It was then that a blazing ball of blue fell from the sky, it's magical energies flaring as it slammed into the Heartless.

The gaping mouth of the crust Heartless shut.

An explosion of swirling black energy, a paft of foul smoke, and the creature was gone. In it's place, a solitary Mythril Crystal was in it's place.

And then the second Darkball attacked.

It sped right back into view, it's smoky and spiraling form twisting right around and under Arc-- wait, it stopped!

Right there, beneath Arc, the smoky foe jarred out of it's intangible form, only to unleash a dark shock wave of pulsating energy.

DRACONAS
Post within an hour of this post to quickly counterattack and avoid being hit by the second Darkball!

MAGIUS AND HOMAC
Post within an hour of this post to attack the Darkball without any change of hitting Arc!

Defeated :: Darkball 1
[HP=0/50]

Attacking Arc :: Darkball 2
[HP=35/50]

[Magius]

Iatros watched as the Darkball faded away. He turned to the newcomer, a small blond girl that he was surprised to see in a battle. Surprised or not, he was grateful for her help. He nodded in appreciation to her and then said with a smile "Nice spell work. We could've used your help earlier, but better late then never, right?" He then turned to check on Arc when he saw the other darkball was back and was about to do something. He didn't know what it was about to do, but it couldn't be good.

Thinking quickly, Iatros flipped his sword into reverse grip and threw it like a javelin at the other darkball. Thanks to his arcane strength, the sword went flying at the darkball at high speeds. If he was lucky, the sword would hit the darkball before it had time to pull off its attack.

[Homac]

Namine smiled self-consciously at the praise from her new ally.

"I'm just glad I could help. I hadn't seen anything happening from where I was before."

As Iatros threw his sword, Namine grabbed a small charm out of her pocket, held it in front of her, and said, "Ragnarok!"

As she did this, a flurry of light blasts burst forth, flying alongside Iatros' thrown blade.

She really hoped that the two attacks wouldn't hit their other ally, but just the Darkball.

[Xemnas (I)]

As the shockwave hit from beneath Arc, he was blasted up and back. Glad to have been moved, once he saw his allies' attacks, Arc soon met the ground. The drake got up, shaking himself off, and looked around. The shadow man had disappeared. Sighing, Arc turned back to face the Heartless. He prepared to charge, not attacking from the numerous magical attacks already launched at it. If he were to attack, he might get attacked by his teammates. So, he waited.

[Shinn]

[Rocket this is MY story so I'll do as I please. I've been here for a while so I think I know how the rules go for canons. Besides Yami gave me the 'OK' before I started this thread to use Sora in any way I want. My post will not be changed.]

Sora struggled for a while trying to suppress the pain inside him. He fell off of his bed and started to crawl to the door.

"Whats...happening?" he said, barely managing to say those words. In by inch he came closer to the door trying desperately to make it out. His chest felt like it was on fire and his entire body felt weak. As he reached for the door Sora suddenly stopped moving and fell backwards on the floor.

A flash of purple and black light shot out from his chest and a glowing purple orb floated above him. The orb expanded and began to reveal an image of a person. The unknown figure slowly floated down and stood over Soras unconscious body. His face was hidden in darkness by his hood. He wore an all black hoodie with strange blue markings on the sleeves and shoulders. His pants were similar to Soras, baggy and came down in between his heels and knees. He wore all black shoes with red buckles.

He examined his body creating dark auras in his hands. Looking down at Sora he placed his foot on him and flipped him over.

"... .... ....... .... ..... ....."

"Sora!" a voice from outside his house caught the unknown persons attention. He created a Corridor of Darkness and stepped in exiting Soras room. Outside Soras house, another Corridor appeared in front of the house. The unknown person walked out and stood face to face with Riku. Now that he had a body he could see everything. He
looked around gazing at everything for the very first time. He then looked back at Riku.

"... ... ..... ... ..... "

[Shinn]

[Everyone I'm gonna be gone for a long while, in the meantime I need Rocket to stall the participants for at least two months. So hit them with everything you've got! When I get back I'll be able to finish this thread in its entirety.]